Sam Montagna
Professor Mulready
Shakespeare II
4 April 2012
Midterm
I typically pick a character or two
and focus on them. After my first post, which was too broad and
focused on all the characters of Merchant of Venice, I shifted
my focus to one or two characters in my other posts. Instead of
posting about all the characters, I talked about Kate and Petruccio
and then Richard. In my first post, I talk about what happens in the
first act of Merchant of Venice and then give my opinion on it. My
second and third post consisted of focusing on a character’s trait
and expanding on it. For example, I talk about Kate's feisty
attitude, Petruccio's arrogant attitude and Richard's weakness as a
King. Since my first post, I have been trying to focus my posts on a
single idea and explore it.
Typically, I write the post, edit it
to my liking, post it and hope that what I came up with makes sense
and invokes thought. When I reread my posts after not reading them
for a while, I am surprised that I am the one who wrote them. When I
begin a piece of writing, I get all my thoughts down on paper first
and then make it grammatically correct. After that, I search for
awkwardness and choose my words wisely. When the final product is
finished, a considerable amount of work has been put into it. I tend
to underestimate myself as a writer, so rereading my posts and
reading the comments makes me feel like what I wrote made sense. So,
after realizing that my first post was not the best, I worked towards
making my posts better. In my other two posts, I noticed that I made
connections from Shakespeare to something else. I compared Kate and
Petruccio to a high school snob and arrogant jock. I believe this
idea is worth revisiting because their relationship is so complex and
can easily be transferred to today. Their relationship can be seen as
unhealthy or just what the doctor ordered. It depends on the point of
view. At first, I did not like the blogging and I did not know what
to expect. However, I do think there are benefits to blogging. I like
having to expose myself to other people's ideas about Shakespeare.
Also, the blogging challenges me to explore an idea that otherwise
would not have been noticed at all.
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